Archive for the Improvisational Category
Bill Orcutt “Bill Orcutt” (PALILALIA)
LP version. For those not following Bill Orcutt’s drift into increasingly ear-friendly orbits in his recent live sets, Bill Orcutt — his first solo electric studio album — shocks with its space and sensitivity. On this eponymous record, Orcutt mines the expansiveness and sustain possible on the electric guitar, letting […]
Nurse With Wound “Soliloquy For Lilith” (Dirter Promotions)
Breathe in. Breathe out. Look over your shoulder. Nothing. Of course there’s nothing. Breathe in. Hold the breath. Just in case there’s something around to hear. Fix your eyes forward. They flit to the side, instinctually. To look over your shoulder again. Slaves to the subconscious. But the neck remains […]
Tony Conrad With Faust “Outside The Dream Syndicate” (Superior Viaduct)
Violinist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad started his career in New York in the early 1960s. As a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (a.k.a. the Dream Syndicate) alongside John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Angus MacLise, he participated in now-legendary and often legendarily loud drone performances […]
Fire!: “She Sleeps, She Sleeps” (Rune Grammofon)
Fire! is a Swedish trio comprising Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Johan Berthling (Tape), and Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums), which came together with the idea of a fresh approach to improvised music drawing upon a number of influences from free jazz, psychedelic rock, and noise. Fire! is also these musicians’ […]